Carrying out my GAME Plan: Action

In my previous post, I designed two GAME plans to achieve two different goals that will help me to improve my professional skills and introduce new education tools and assessment methods to my students. In this post, I would like to share my ideas and progress in terms of carrying out my Game Plan.

Goal of my first GAME plan was following and reading articles from 5 different websites that publish articles about current physics related researches, educational technology and new teaching strategies. Additionally, one of my colleagues advised me to establish a PLC to discuss articles together. To achieve this goal, I will use the following resources;

1-      Internet access.

2-      School policies.

3-      Physics curriculums.

4-      Google search engine to locate related websites.

5-      Colleagues who use technology in their classrooms and are following technology and research websites.

6-      Colleagues who are willing to form a PLC and discuss articles related to physics.

7-      Digital tools, technology and physics related periodicals and online journals.

I will need to review school policies about subscription and membership fees for various journals and websites and physics curriculum to learn additional information. I will also need to revise REAL strategy to evaluate websites and guidelines of starting an effective PLC. So far, I used google to search and located websites: http://physicsworld.com/, http://www.eschoolnews.com/, http://www.educationworld.com/, http://www.sciencedaily.com/, http://tpt.aapt.org/, http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/jpteo/ and http://www.iopblog.org/ . I will find out more websites and evaluate them with using REAL strategy (November, 2008). Additionally, I shared my PLC ideas briefly with colleagues, and I am waiting response from them.

My second GAME plan’s goal was learning digital portfolios as an assessment tool and teaching students how to use digital portfolios efficiently. I am going to use following resources to achieve my goal:

1-      Internet access.

2-      Websites with information about how to create and use digital portfolios.

3-      Websites that offer free digital portfolio space.

4-      Samples of existing digital portfolios that can be used as a model or guide.

5-      Colleagues with experience who used digital portfolios before.

I am going to need additional information about efficiency of digital portfolios. I will also need materials that I can use to create my first digital portfolio other than Walden’s e-portfolio. Finally, I will need to review physics curriculum to prepare a portfolio template that students can use while creating their portfolios. So far, I talked with my colleagues, and found out that they never used digital portfolios. I bookmarked some websites such as http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech111.shtml, http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic82.htm and http://echucaelearning.wikispaces.com/Digital+Portfolios. I am going to read and follow the links. Additionally, I located http://electronicportfolios.com/myportfolio/versions.html website which compare and review portfolio service providers. I am going to choose a free portfolio site to store students’ portfolios.

References

November, A. (2008). Web Literacy for Educators. CA: The Corwin Press.